Hey, all you Christians. Don’t you get it? Muslims have a trademark on Allah. So you can’t refer to your God as Allah. Just try it and they’ll burn your church down.
At least that’s what some Maylasian Muslims seem to believe, and burning churches is what they’re doing, writes Seth Mydans for the New York Times.
As he puts it, “Many Muslims (in Kuala Lumpur) are angry over a Dec. 31 court ruling that overturned a government ban on the use of the word Allah to denote the Christian God. Though that usage is common in many countries, where Arabic- and Malay-language Bibles describe Jesus as the “son of Allah,” many Muslims here insist that the word belongs exclusively to them and say that its use by other faiths could confuse Muslim worshipers.”
But wait, there’s more. It is reported that politicians may be fomenting the whole thing to fit their purposes. That “Some political analysts and politicians accuse Prime Minister Najib Razak of raising racial and religious issues as he tries to solidify his Malay base.”
Now isn’t that unusual! Like it’s never before happened that some humans are using the name of whichever deity works to steam up other humans for political purposes.
More fodder for Atheists. If God, or Allah, as the case may be, were as good as their adherents claim, he wouldn’t allow such stuff to happen. Such a great and good wizard wouldn’t allow politicians to steal his thunder by making false claims in his name. And he certainly wouldn’t allow different religious groups to vehemently argue that he’s on their side, and not anybody elses… to the point of killing each other.
Which means, of course, that we’d all be robots, guided by remote control from on high. But then there couldn’t be atheists, because they’d get zapped by the super remote. Same for different beliefs among those who believe there is a higher power/intelligence. They’d all have to believe exactly the same thing.
Which really wouldn’t be believing, would it?
